Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob
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| Organization: | ICANN |
| Affiliation: | ICANN |
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| Region: | Europe |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Email: | samaneh.tajali@icann.org |
| LinkedIn: |  Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob
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| Twitter: |  @samounk
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Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob is a Lead Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR) Specialist at ICANN.
Career History
Tajalizadehkhoob works with John Crain, Chief Security, Stability, and Resiliency Officer, and is part of the Office of the Chief Technical Officer (OCTO). She has collaborated with other research teams as a visiting scholar. In the KU Leuven DistriNet Research Group, she worked on Internet measurements for estimating web vulnerabilities and the patching practices of hosting servers. Additionally, she worked with scholars from the security and privacy lab at the University of Innsbruck on designing abuse metrics to reliably measure the security performance of Internet identifiers.
ICANN and Internet Governance Participation
Tajalizadehkhoob is based in ICANN’s Europe Region and works remotely from the Netherlands. She coordinates closely with other ICANN organization functions to implement ICANN’s Security, Stability, and Resiliency strategies. She researches DNS security and abuse. She represents ICANN on matters relating to the SSR of the unique identifier system within ICANN’s remit and develops technical work, positions, and materials on the administration of those identifiers from an SSR perspective.
Education
Tajalizadehkhoob trained as an Electronics Engineer and has a master's in Engineering and Policy Analysis and a doctorate in Internet Security and Data Analytics from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. As a post-doctoral researcher at the same university, she worked on banking security and underground markets, utilizing advanced statistical techniques and machine learning.
Publications
Tajalizadehkhoob has authored publications on web security, Cybersecurity, Internet measurements, underground economies, and development of security metrics design using advance statistical methods.
Fun Facts
Samaneh speaks English, Farsi, and Dutch, and has a basic knowledge of Arabic. She is a big fan of board games. In her free time, she runs, plays tennis, and plays the piano.